[Swarm-Modelling] Deadline extension: March 21st, Complex Systems and Social Simulations Summer School, CEU

[Steve Railsback]

Forwarded message from Laszlo Laufer:

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Extended Deadline: March 21st  - New scholarships -  New sponsors
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Complex Systems and Social Simulations Summer Course
Central European University
July 7 - 18, 2008, Budapest, Hungary
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Web site: http:// www.sun.ceu.hu/complex-systems/
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- New scholarsihps available covering:
    Tuition fee
    Housing
    Travel allowance (only for a limited number of students)


- Application deadline for scholarship applications:
March 21st, 2008


- New sponsors:
European Social Simulation Association http://www.essa.eu.org/
Wolfram Research http://www.wolfram.com/
Collegium Budapest http://colbud.hu/
Aitia International http://www.aitia.ai


- Topics:
CSS and Innovation, Social Networks, CSS in Political Science, CSS Tools with a 
Special Emphasis on Simulation, Bio-Inspired CSS Models, Efficient Studies of 
CSS: Supercomputers and Grids, Evolutionary Game Theory and Social Systems, CSS 
in Socio-Economics, CSS in Sociology


- Course Directors:
Laszlo Gulyas, Collegium Budapest and AITIA Inc., Budapest, Hungary;
Gyorgy Kampis, Collegium Budapest and Eötvös University, Hungary


- Course Managers:
Laszlo Laufer, Central European University and Budapest University of Technology 
and Economics, Hungary (address@hidden)
Gyorgy Farkas, Eotvos University of Sciences, Hungary (address@hidden)


- Course Faculty:
Petra Ahrweiler, National Institute of Technology Management, UCD School of 
Business
Stefano Battiston, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Lars-Erik Cederman, ETH Zürich
Laszlo Gulyas, Collegium Budapest and AITIA Inc, Budapest
George Kampis, Collegium Budapest
Krzystof Kurowski, Poznanskie Centrum Superkomputerowo Sieciowe, Poznan
Scott Page, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Flaminio Squazzoni, University of Brescia, Italy
Klaus G. Troitzsch, University of Koblenz


- Target group:
MA and Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, researchers and 
professionals. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered.


- Course Summary:
The terms Complex Systems (CSs) denotes an inderdisciplinary research 
methodology currently successful in the social sciences and elsewhere. CS 
research originated from phyiscs and nonlinear systems some decades ago but its 
models have soon permeated distant fields as economy, political science or more 
recently sociology. As implied by the name, a CS is essentially a system of many 
complicated interactions. Complex Systems methodology has developed 
sophisticated yet well understood tools to cope with this challenge. In social 
systems the essence of CS is the characterization of the distributed dynamics of 
how the interaction of many actors and variables leads to predictable phenomena, 
that often involve hierarchy, emergence, dynamic structures and large scale 
transitions.

Each day in the course focuses on one tool of this encompassing methodology. CS 
methods include various mathematical models (nonlinear systems, networks, 
statistical approaches), computer simulations (e.g. systems dynamics, 
agent-based modeling). CS simulations are highly computation intensive and pose 
problems of supercomputing and parallelization.

The CSSS course offers lectures, tutorials and discussions on the whole spectrum 
of the above. Lectures are from leading experts, specifically focusing on CS 
concepts, modeling and (social) simulation, followed by discussion.


- The language of instruction: English

- Tuition fee: The 500 EUR/2 weeks.

- Application deadline:
For scholarship applicants: March 21, 2008;
For fee-paying applicants: May 30, 2008

Online application: https://online.ceu.hu/osun/osun (attachments to be sent via 
email to address@hidden

For further information queries can be directed to the SUN office by email 
(address@hidden), via skype (ceu-sun) or telephone (00-36-1-327-3